CVE-2025-61771CWE-400denial-of-service

CVE-2025-61771

High · published October 7, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. In versions prior to 2.2.19, 3.1.17, and 3.2.2, ``Rack::Multipart::Parser` stores non-file form fields (parts without a `filename`) entirely in memory as Ruby `String` objects. A single large text field in a multipart/form-data request (hundreds of megabytes or more) can consume equivalent process memory, potentially leading to out-of-memory (OOM) conditions and denial of service (DoS). Attackers can send large non-file fields to trigger excessive memory usage. Impact scales with request size and concurrency, potentially leading to worker crashes or severe garbage-collection overhead. All Rack applications processing multipart form submissions are affected. Versions 2.2.19, 3.1.17, and 3.2.2 enforce a reasonable size cap for non-file fields (e.g., 2 MiB). Workarounds include restricting maximum request body size at the web-server or proxy layer (e.g., Nginx `client_max_body_size`) and validating and rejecting unusually large form fields at the application level.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00561 · 45.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2025-10-07T19:16Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
rack/rack< 2.2.192.2.19
rack/rack≥ 3.1.0, < 3.1.173.1.17
rack/rack≥ 3.2.0, < 3.2.23.2.2
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 OCT 14:42Z
    Rack's multipart parser buffers large non‑file fields entirely in memory, enabling DoS (memory exhaustion)
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